Emilia in the window
by lastef

Comment:
Hello from the critique Club :)

First look at the photo doesn't really say its a portrait as I am distracted by the other elements in this photo. For one, the right third of the photo is predominantly occupied by blown-out outdoors which serves no purpose.

A portrait should be such that it draws the attention of the viewer to the subject and let it be distracted. From your description, you wanted to portray her nature about looking out the window, but even in this case, donot let the window steal the show, it can be a part, but just a minimal part, for reference only and the major part should be yout cat.

This is one quick and dirty fix trying to remove some of the distracting elements from the photo


If you have any questions please feel free to pm me
thanks,
Gaurawa

triple-ply TP
by aplomb76

Comment:
that's gonna hurt ;)

too many
by ericsuth

Comment:
wow, you arranged all these ? thats a tough job !!

On the verges of sanity
by nico_blue

Comment:
hmm this says "this photo has been validated" so that makes me wonder why was this called for a proof in the first place.. may be I am mising to something :)
I like this... 7

Snow Bells
by sher

Comment:
I like the duotone conversion.. Can you tell me which color you choose in duotone ? I am always confused about what to do

The beginning of defiance
by mlhop05

Comment:
got to this photo from "a bomb from nowhere " thread...
beautiful model and I would say a good pose, but the quality of the photo is not so good which is why you can see it didn't score well...You need a better lighting, the image looks like its underexposed and if you try to use levels/curves it will make it noisy as I can see here.. most likely you used not so bright light and camera was at a high ISO setting...also the white balance is a little off giving a yellow cast to the whole image.
this is my attempt at editing...

Simple Truth
by ebertdj

Comment:
Is that leaf real ? hmm interesting. I am not very fond of the too tight crop here..looks like you could have used some room on the left to let the shadow grow ..

We all begin our lives as innocent as a lamb
by Azrifel

Comment:
what's the yellow thing ? some identification tag or something?
the picture looks very cool with a lovely background and sharp focus on the subject..

great wall
by saintaugust

Comment:
She's beautiful :)
The blown out parts on her forehead and nose are a little distracting. Not sure if there were there to start with or were accentuated with your soft focus effects. I am not very fond of the positioning of your model here, looks like you left more than needed space on the right side of photo...you could have moved her to the right of the frame leaving space only one one side. This is what I meant..

Reaching Out
by elsapo

Comment:
nice lighting